Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • B. Kliban cartoons on the web

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    Much to my delight, and considerable surprise, GoComics, the online repository of newspaper comics from both Universal and United Media syndicates, has been placing online the wonderfully off-kilter and reality-warping cartoons of B. Kliban. If you’re not familiar with Kliban, it’s worth noting that The Far Side’s Gary Larson, Bizzarro’s Dan Piraro, the New Yorker’s…

  • Frank Cadogan Cowper

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    British painter and illustrator Frank Cadogan Cowper was born a bit late to have been a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but like his contemporaries Henry Payne and Byam Shaw, he took to their style and subject matter so strongly as to be known as a Neo-Pre-Raphaelite (it that’s not an inherently self-contradictory term). Cowper’s work fell into…

  • Richard Haas

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    New York based artist Richard Haas works at a nexus of painting and architecture. He is best known for his large scale murals, many of which use a trompe l’oeil approach that actually changes the perception of the building itself, rather than simply using it as a canvas. He also does the latter, however, presenting…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Haseltine Venetian sunset

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    Santa Maria della Salute, Sunset; William Stanley Haseltine Beautifully Turneresque light in this view of Venice by American landscape painter William Stanley Haseltine. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Via @metmuseum]

  • Lisa Gloria

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    Lisa GLoria is a painter from Illinois. Though she paints a variety of subjects, her focus is on still life. She is largely self-taught, and has developed a style with a nice balance between refinement and painterly immediacy. She now shares her experience in “virtual workshops” and videos, as well as in occasional process articles…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing

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    View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Getty Museum. A beautifully complete, but still economical, graphite drawing by the 19th century German landscape artist. I love the way he has handled the tone and textural variation in the distance, middle ground and foreground…